Intel Xeon E5-2648L v4 vs AMD A4-9120

Comparative analysis of Intel Xeon E5-2648L v4 and AMD A4-9120 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization, Graphics, Graphics interfaces. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Xeon E5-2648L v4

  • 12 more cores, run more applications at once: 14 vs 2
  • 26 more threads: 28 vs 2
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 24% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1302 vs 1050
  • 10x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 12151 vs 1217
Specifications (specs)
Number of cores 14 vs 2
Number of threads 28 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 1302 vs 1050
PassMark - CPU mark 12151 vs 1217

Reasons to consider the AMD A4-9120

  • Around 3% higher maximum core temperature: 90°C vs 87°C
  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 75 Watt
Maximum core temperature 90°C vs 87°C
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: Intel Xeon E5-2648L v4
CPU 2: AMD A4-9120

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
1302
1050
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
12151
1217
Name Intel Xeon E5-2648L v4 AMD A4-9120
PassMark - Single thread mark 1302 1050
PassMark - CPU mark 12151 1217
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 627
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 627
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1391
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1391
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 4131
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 4131

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Xeon E5-2648L v4 AMD A4-9120

Essentials

Architecture codename Broadwell Stoney Ridge
Launch date Q1'16 1 June 2017
Place in performance rating 1622 1604
Processor Number E5-2648LV4
Series Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v4 Family AMD A4-Series APU for Laptops
Status Launched
Vertical segment Embedded Laptop
Family AMD A-Series Processors
OPN Tray AM9120AYN23AC
OS Support Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition, RHEL x86 64-Bit, Ubuntu x86 64-Bit

Performance

64 bit support
Base frequency 1.80 GHz 2.2 GHz
Bus Speed 9.6 GT/s QPI
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Maximum core temperature 87°C 90°C
Maximum frequency 2.50 GHz 2.5 GHz
Number of cores 14 2
Number of QPI Links 2
Number of threads 28 2
VID voltage range 0
Compute Cores 4
Die size 124.5 mm
L1 cache 160 KB
L2 cache 1 MB
Number of GPU cores 2
Transistor count 1200 Million
Unlocked

Memory

Max memory channels 4 1
Maximum memory bandwidth 76.8 GB/s 17.1 Gb/s
Maximum memory size 1.5 TB
Supported memory types DDR4 1600/1866/2133/2400 DDR4
Supported memory frequency 2133 MHz

Compatibility

Low Halogen Options Available
Max number of CPUs in a configuration 2
Package Size 45mm x 52.5mm
Sockets supported FCLGA2011-3 BGA
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 15 Watt
Configurable TDP 10-15 Watt

Peripherals

Max number of PCIe lanes 40
PCI Express revision 3.0 3.0
PCIe configurations x4, x8, x16
Scalability 2S

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel® AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Demand Based Switching
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Physical Address Extensions (PAE) 46-bit
Thermal Monitoring

Virtualization

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)
AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™)

Graphics

Graphics max frequency 655 MHz
iGPU core count 2
Processor graphics AMD Radeon R3 Graphics

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
HDMI